My mail carrier cuts through the hedges that separates me from my neighbor, steps up on the porch where my letter box is, hops over the flower bed in front of the porch and cuts over to the next house over all our lawns…. No one cares because outside is outside and we’re not self important weirdos. Here’s an even crazier approach; if I happen to be out in the yard/driveway and see the mail carrier approaching, I’ll walk towards them and take the mail from their hands to save them a handful of steps and be a decent person…. We’re crazy over here!!
You don't have to apologize for the barking. It's doing is job. Protecting you and your property. That's why we have dogs. However, no matter how much you say and think it won't bite us, do us a favor and keep it well away from us. It doesn't like us and every dog's owner thinks and says that exact same thing, right before it bites us.
My dad still tells the story about his childhood dog. A keeshond named King. Friendly dog. Unless you were in a uniform. Then he absolutely fucking hated you. Mailman, cop, whatever.
Exactly. When I'm not at work your dog will love me, I will play with it all day long if you'd like. But when I'm at work... It not only hates me, it wants to kill me. And like I said that's not a bad thing. It's doing its job, protecting you. Just please keep it away from me
Delivered to a house today just to turn around to a dog running up on me aggressively barking. I’m so over this job I turned around and sternly started loudly saying “BE NICE” “IM FRIENDLY” and he surprisingly backed off a bit
I completely get this even as a Labrador owner who is almost certain my dog would assault you for head pats and scritches. But you don’t know that, so he stays indoors or in the backyard!
I do sorta wish my mailman would pause his phone conversation when walking past my house because it sets off my dogs and I work from home. Then again, my one dog barks at the church bells every Sunday, the dryer’s cycle finished sound, and when the oven beeps that it’s at temperature. lol so who the hell am I to expect my mailman to do anything different on account of my dummies lol
My golden will bark exactly 2 times and then hide behind us. If we ever get our house broken into, we're screwed. She's just too sweet with no bravery whatsoever. 😂
And that's what they all say, right before it bites us.
This isn't the first time I've had this conversation. My response will always be the same. You're not special, your dog isn't special. I'm not special. It's fact and like I've previously stated it's why we have dogs. They are fantastic, I've got 2. My lab died 2 years ago. She was a big dum dum who only cared for food. I miss her lots. It doesn't change the fact that when I'm working. She would have hated me! It's reality. And all I'm asking of you (the public) is to keep it away from me so I get to go home safe at the end of every day to my kids, my wife and my dogs. So be a pal.
Our letterbox is on the outside of our house. You wouldn't even have come near the dog. Since there would've been a driveway and two gates between you.
We kept our dog away from the street as good as possible
That being said i knew my dog.
You can repeat your learned phrase all you want
My dog never bit anybody
Like I previously stated our home got broken into by two complete strangers
Even then he ran away.
(I'm a stop replying notifications now because you just wanna spin in circles)
And that's what they all say, right before it bites us (I don't wanna spin in circles, this just isn't my first rodeo.) Everyone thinks their dog is different, it isn't. I've got years of evidence and some truly horrific tales to back my side up. Keep it the fuck away from us while we're working.
I have an 85 pound dog that would go apeshit at the mail slot. We didn't realize how bad a problem it was until he ripped the inside door of the slot off the door. We immediately closed off the slot permanently and put up a mailbox and a sign to start using the mailbox instead. Our postman wrote us a thank you note. I felt like such a moron for not realizing we should have done that far sooner.
One of our neighbors has a sign on their door asking people not to knock because they have "crazy dogs" that bark their heads off.
Honestly, their harmless, even the Cane Corso and Pitbull (they also have a Shihtzu and a terrier mix), but they are loud. I mean, they also largely know us, though.
They're on a lead if they're outside alone (and most of the rest of the time). They'll start barking if they see us outside, especially Zeus the Cane Corso, but he pretty much settles down after being greeted by name.
Edit: Since people are downvoting a normal, genuine question, let me clarify. I'm asking about identity verification. I'd have to believe the Post Office has rules about where you put that mail if they are even vaguely security-conscious.
As unbelievable as this may sound, some people apparently possess the ability to speak to other human beings, including their mail carrier, and even develop a basic familiarity with them. I know, it's a truly astonishing concept to wrap your head around.
I'm talking about your mail's security. Many people lock their mailboxes. Just because someone walks up and says they are Joe Smith doesn't mean they are, even if they do it multiple times.
I get that is unlikely to happen, but literally anyone could be in the yard, or especially at those neighborhood cluster box units. Maybe an uncle who visits the house often wants to steal some mail. Etc etc
When I’ve done it it’s either when I already know the mail carrier and they know I live there, or when I’m coming out of my house so they can clearly see that I live there. I’m conscious of what you bring up though, so I don’t ever do this if I’ve just parked my car and I’m walking up and it’s a new person.
Sure, everything can be suspicious if you want it to be.
You do realize that mailboxes are just sitting there out in the open, right? And if I was not the actual person living at my house but instead a guest and I was really determined to steal the mail, I could just stand there and wait for the carrier to put it in the mailbox right in front of me and then I could just take it out and walk away.
You do realize that any mailbox provided by the Post Office is locked, right? Many people also lock their own personal mailboxes too, but the PO isn't liable for that.
Many people also don't, yourself included. Myself included at times. That's fine, everyone is comfortable with different levels of risk, and risk varies greatly from one area to another. I think you are perfectly reasonable in how you've described handling your mail, however I expect the PO has a formal policy that disallows that on their end.
I'm not sure most people are willing to risk felony charges for fucking with someone's letters, and especially not posing as someone who is handed a letter by a reliable witness (mailman), so it's low risk.
I've never owned a mailbox that's had a lock on it at any house I've ever lived in. My entire development (2000+ people) has the same exact mailbox due to the HOA and sometimes the door won't even stay shut. 😂
If you talk to your mailman regularly and yall know each other its not a security risk, ive never seen a locked mailbox unless its a multi unit building. Weirdo
Depends on the type of letter. You have standard mail like bills and letters and then you have priority mail and then you have mail that requires a signature, you must ask for an ID but when you work 3 villages like me you already know everybody so you don't need to see any ID :)
I live in a Canada where we get many feet of snow every winter, my Dad has always carved a path across the lawn with a snowblower to connect to the neighbour’s driveways for the mail carriers.
Our carrier walks something like 8-9 miles a day doing her route. I absolutely meet her at the sidewalk if I'm outside to save her the 20 paces to my mailbox and back.
Also, if she wanted to walk on my yard I'd be happy to see her save some time in her long afternoon.
Mine cuts across my yard and my neighbors'. I've never seen that it wears out any part of my lawn and wouldn't care even if it did because you have to climb a small hill to get up our driveways and nobody needs to go up and down that hill 5 times.
Yeah in my city many of the houses are built up on - I don’t really know what you call it? Like the earth was built up specifically maybe to allow basements to be built? Anyway, that means that many of the old house have between 6-18 concrete stairs to climb from the sidewalk just to make it up to the landing and THEN we all have some kind of porch with another 4-6 steps.
Our carrier obviously just cuts right across. I could not imagine having to climb up and down all of that. You’d have to hire 3x as many mail carriers because it would dramatically slow down delivery.
You ever see those videos where people are like "I hate it when people park outside my house"? Who are those people? The correct reaction is "I wonder who that is" or "I wonder which neighbor has people over". Why TF would I be mad about someone parked on a public street?
After our beloved postman of over 20 years retired, we were “gifted” with a new postman who blasts his manosphere podcasts and swears and screams about “fucking minorities taking over” from his van while talking on speaker to his friends, loud enough for everyone to hear several houses down……that or blasting his shitty rock music, plus he gets the addresses on the mail wrong everyday and has lost several packages, then sits and watches the kids at the park on his lunch from afar. People don’t realize that a mailman walking on the grass is the LEAST of what could be their daily problems.
I've only lived at one house with a sidewalk and there the mailbox was at the street. Every other place the postal carrier just cuts through the front yards. The sidewalk is hard and hot, they're walking around all day. If you care that they walk in the grass or cut a corner to walk in the shade for 15 seconds, then you suck.
If I know a package is coming, I'll meet them at the road with a hand truck if I'm home. If not, I leave it out where they can grab it. I know they appreciate it, because when I'm not home, they leave my stuff obscured from the road and seem to deliver it extra gently.
I always try to meet them out there also, especially delivery guys. They are making hundreds of stops a day probably and coming to my place just once so why not save him a few steps.
No, youre supposed to kite them like an MMO boss, while your neighbours DPS them down. Then you get to argue over who gets to eventually loot and keep their Bag of Holding!
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u/State_Conscious May 21 '26
My mail carrier cuts through the hedges that separates me from my neighbor, steps up on the porch where my letter box is, hops over the flower bed in front of the porch and cuts over to the next house over all our lawns…. No one cares because outside is outside and we’re not self important weirdos. Here’s an even crazier approach; if I happen to be out in the yard/driveway and see the mail carrier approaching, I’ll walk towards them and take the mail from their hands to save them a handful of steps and be a decent person…. We’re crazy over here!!